As promised, here are some pics of my new VW Jetta TDI. It was pretty late in the day and the light was a little warm for a black car, but I'll get some better pics soon. Btw -- 36.4mpg over the first 600miles. Not bad eh?

As I wrote about last time, Pleth's move from VMWare Server to VMWare ESXi has been very successful thus far, but in the process we've discovered a couple of "neat tricks" and have proven to ourselves that the technology choices we made a few years back were indeed the right ones.

When you copy a .vmdk (vmware disk image) over from a VMWare Server machine, you have to convert it over to ESXi format. This process makes the resulting disk image the whole size that you've allocated. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you had it set to thin provisioning in VMWare Server your disk usage just went up. WAY up.

I'm teaching at UACCB this summer, and my Microeconomics class is taking their fist test. There's not a lot of smiles in the room....(which means my work here is done...lol). Anyway, spent the morning reading about tuningVMware ESXi, which was just released in version 4.0, and supports hardware that we can get in our private shelf at ThePlanet. We ordered 2 new servers this week, both dual-processor Quad Core Intel Xeon powered Dell Poweredge models with 16gb ram and a ton of disk space. This should make things a bit faster than our current configuration. We were going to migrate everything to VMWare Server but with the release of 4.0 and ThePlanet supporting ESXi in their datacenters, this move makes much more sense.